DESCENT ≈ An Atlas of Relation at The Lightner Museum

October 5, 2023 – January 28, 2024
The Lightner Museum
75 King Street, St. Augustine, FL 32084
https://lightnermuseum.org/2023/08/28/descent/

Wretched Yew exhibited at the Grammar Center

The Grammar Center is proud to present an exhibition of work by Dawn Roe.

Produced over a two year period, Wretched Yew centers on the Taxus brevifolia genus of yew tree and its location in the Pacific Northwest.

Roe’s work presents both the yew and the process of image making as material objects in a state of flux, provisional upon the effects of light, time and embodied actions.

In this iteration, a series of additive gestures unfolds across walls, onto the floor, over cabinet tops, out of the room and out the door.

11.10.23
6pm – 10pm

The Grammar Center

DESCENT ≈ An Atlas of Relation included in Finger Mullet Film Festival ’23

From the festival press release:

FMFF is dedicated to nurturing an experimental art and film culture in St. Augustine by providing an
inspired platform of the best national and international short films alongside a burgeoning local and
regional culture of time-based creators and storytellers.

The artists and filmmakers included in this year’s Open Call / Curated screening blocks have harnessed
the theme, Local Waters. This theme acknowledges the role that water has played in the difficult history
of our community, and many communities world-wide, as well as our democracy. Water is essential to
life. It can provide vital coastal resources one day and life-threatening weather the next. We understand
that to live in St. Augustine, or near any significant body of water, is to know the beauty of water as a
force of nature as well as a cultural symbol of power.

https://www.flagler.edu/media/crisp-ellert-art-museum/events/FMFF_Release_04_28_23.pdf

An edited version of, DESCENT ≈ An Atlas of Relation, was screened as part of a live performance incorporating a musical response by Daniel Luedtke and Dave Rodriguez.

Daniel Luedtke is an interdisciplinary artist, musician and educator. Dave Rodriguez is a filmmaker, musician and audio-visual archivist. Luedtke and Rodriguez are both based in Tallahassee, FL. Their recent sonic collaborations consist of modular synthesis and field recordings paired with saxophone and voice.

Interview with Let’s Watch with the Ann Arbor Film Festival

I was recently interviewed by Dena Dunham for the series, Let’s Watch with the Ann Arbor Film Festival, where I share some thoughts about my art practice in general and discuss works from my project, Wretched Yew, that will be on view as part of Ann Arbor Film Festival’s Off the Screen exhibition program this March. The interview is part of a series produced by the City of Ann Arbor and premiered on Comcast (XFINITY) Channel 18 in the greater Ann Arbor area on Sunday, January 15. An archived version is available on YouTube.

Recent Photo/Video works included in The River at Riverbank Arts, Flint, Michigan

The River
November 11, 2022 – January 11, 2023

Riverbank Arts
400 N Saginaw Street,
Flint, MI 48502

Gallery hours Friday 12-4pm, or by appointment.
Email gaydos@umich.edu or for more information.  
Contact gaydos@umich.edu or
albanks@umich.eduto schedule a visit.

Clean water and healthy waterways are vital to our community. Like blood flowing through a human body, our rivers keep each part of our community connected and alive. Through their work, the artists in The River engage with the health of our waterways and the communities and ecologies which rely on them. This exciting group of artists traverse varying disciplines – from sound art, performance, visual and video mediums – with each work challenging audiences to reflect on this flowing, vital lifeblood.

New work included in Deep Water at GroundWork Gallery in Norfolk, U.K.

I am honored to have been invited to debut new works from my series, DESCENT ≈ An Atlas of Relation in this exhibition. My work will be presented as a wall-based vinyl print and looped video installation considering the entanglement of human and more-than-human lives visualizing distinct and varied bodies of water in ongoing conversation – freshwater rivers and lakes connected to seaways through channels and locks surrounding land masses comprising a massive network relied upon by plant and animal beings to survive.

On view at GroundWork from October 15 – December 17, 2022, Deep Water includes work by women artists innovating with a variety of media to reflect on sea water pollution and dangers to wildlife and ocean environments. Included in the exhibition are: Mary Blue, Aude Bourgine, Colleen Flanigan, Zena Holloway, Julia Manning, Liz McGowan, Dawn Roe, and Phillipa Silcock.

GroundWork Gallery is dedicated to art and environment. It shows the work of contemporary artists who care about how we see the world. Exhibitions and creative programmes explore how art can enable us to respond to the changing environment and imagine how we can shape its future.

Wretched Yew to be screened at The Athens International Film + Video Festival, Athens, OH

Wretched Yew has been selected for inclusion in the 49th Athens International Film + Video Festival in Athens, Ohio. The video will screen as part of the shorts program, The Space Inside, at 5 pm on Tuesday, April 5th.

Founded in 1974, the AIFVF has been presenting the best in international film for 46 years. Known globally as a festival that supports cinema from underground and marginalized populations, the AIFVF represents the values that we share as a community. It is a champion of justice and provides a voice for underrepresented artists and viewpoints on a global level.

Work included in The Extended Ear, at Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR

The catalog/artist’s book accompanying the exhibition Conditions for an Unfinished Work of Mourning: Wretched Yew, at Tracey Morgan Gallery, and the recently released publication, Wretched Yew (with Amy Bagwell), from Theurgical Studies Press were both included in a recent artist’s book fair at Carnation Contemporary in Portland, Oregon.

The Extended Ear: An Artist Book Fair celebrates and questions the act of publication. At a time when everyone is making a podcast, releasing a vlog, or starting a newsletter, what does it mean to publish? What does it mean to publicly memorialize our thoughts, and why are artists in particular drawn to this act, whether through print, image, video, or sound? What is it about the artmaking process that so often leads to an output through print and language? Part of language’s power is in its ability to rapidly replicate, but does publishing become more or less powerful with the access provided by social platforms and self-publishing options? Why is it culturally important to have a distinctive voice? And if everyone is talking, who is listening?

Wretched Yew released by Theurgical Studies

Risograph Zine
Printed by Lucky Risograph, Brooklyn
Poems by Amy Bagwell
Photographs by Dawn Roe
First Edition (100 printed)
Language: English

Copies may be purchased directly from Theurgical Studies Press: https://theurgicalstudies.cargo.site/

Theurgical studies is a publication platform embracing systems of magic and ritual through production of limited run art zines specializing in “horror, gothic, weird, & the occult.”

Wretched Yew Included in ecoartpace Embodied Forest Exhibition and Publication

The fall 2021 ecoartspace exhibition, Embodied Forest, can be viewed HERE. Pre-orders of the print publication can be made from the same page.

To understand our place within nature as part of the whole is an eminently social and existential matter. The environmental crisis and the frequency of natural disasters we have experienced last decades, including the pandemic tragedy, which in essence was caused by an ecological imbalance, indicates the urgency for a different logic of conceiving, interacting and projecting the natural world. The artistic community and its ability to expand the social mind have an essential role in creating a new value system concerning the environment, which breaks through modern anthropocentrism and the antagonism between nature and culture.

Coexisting, interacting and exchanging energy with other organisms and natural phenomena is the basis for developing the artistic works presented in Embodied Forest. From the sensitive to the rational, these works contain an effervescence of processes, poetic materials and techniques that reframe Forest in a set of plural languages. These cultural processes unfold nature by using knowledge and poetic freedom to help understand ecology in the Anthropocene and generate new sensibilities to an ethical relation to nature.

Lilian Fraiji, Juror